Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Michigan public opinion was influenced by an incident outside the steel strike proper. A union committee appointed to settle a strike of the Consumers Power Co. obtained an agreement providing a 5? per hour pay rise, a 40-hour week, exclusive bargaining rights for the union, one week a year vacation and two weeks' sick leave, all with pay. When the terms were reported in the power houses early one morning the workers were indignant that they had not got 10? an hour raise. Without warning they pulled the switches, leaving Flint, Saginaw, Bay City with their...
...does not require any agreement at all to be made-the Supreme Court and the Committee which originally sent the bill to the Senate both have said so flatly -but if an employer refused to consider any agreement, he might nevertheless be considered not to have "bargained" in any real sense as required by the law. The big question at issue is whether an employer legally "bargains" who: 1) may be willing to consider wage increases, for example, and even put them into effect without making any promises of how long they will last, or 2) may be willing...
Educational. No shrewd observer last week expected anything very definite to come from Premier van Zeeland's return to Princeton. They did not believe that he had anything so concrete as even a trade agreement to offer Mr. Roosevelt. They did believe that the trip was an exploratory gesture by the Roosevelt Administration and the Oslo group looking toward more definite action, some day. They believed that from his wholehearted admiration for President Roosevelt and the U. S. and his shrewd knowledge of European conditions. Premier van Zeeland was the best man on the Continent to make the trip...
...hold out for F. M. P. C. jurisdiction over hairdressers and make-up men. Next day, the hairdressers and make-up men voted to reject the terms agreed to by their officers, refused membership in the I. A. T. S. E., which has a five-year non-strike agreement with producers. Deadlocked again but now minus a conciliator, F. M. P. C. members put on their pith helmets, went back to picketing along Hollywood's barricades...
Whether or not the Treasury price is ever cut, the threat of a cut would be a potent bargaining point in negotiations for a U. S.-British trade pact or in hastening an international stabilization agreement. Either a world economic conference or a restriction scheme for gold mining is more likely as a method of meeting the gold problem than a deflationary revision in gold prices...